New distro "AROS portable" runs in a virtual environment on your PC, so there's no need for installation, and your existing data won't be touched.
It runs from a USB stick (or any other such flash drive), and boots an AROS distribution based on AROS One. The system requirements are a bit unusual, compared to a raw, native build of AROS, but still are easily met by most reasonably modern computers. "AROS portable" requires an x86_64 PC with USB3.0, HD graphics, and CPU virtualization available and enabled in your PC's BIOS settings. The use of virtualization eliminates the need for some AROS hardware drivers, it acts as an abstraction layer for the actual, physical hardware - in other words: This AROS distro probably "natively" (virtually) supports more graphics, sound, and networking hardware than any other AROS distro. (Unless it's a "hosted" flavour, but that's a different story.)
Great stuff, a new AROS distro is always very welcome, and "AROS portable" looks particularly easy to use.
Here's a video from YouTube channel Retrofaza (2025-05-18):
Go to...
https://arosnews.github.io/aros-portable/
...for more information and download!
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